TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sher,Richard B.
TI  - The Enlightenment & the book: Scottish authors & their publishers in eighteenth-century Britain, Ireland, & America 
SN  - 9780226752549 (electronic bk.)
AV  - Z326 .S54 2006eb
U1  - 070.50941109/033 22
PY  - 2006///
CY  - Chicago
PB  - University of Chicago Press
KW  - English literature
KW  - Scottish authors
KW  - Publishing
KW  - Scottish literature
KW  - 18th century
KW  - Publishers and publishing
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - History
KW  - Ireland
KW  - United States
KW  - Authors and publishers
KW  - Scotland
KW  - Appreciation
KW  - Authors, Scottish
KW  - Intellectual life
KW  - Enlightenment
KW  - Littérature écossaise
KW  - 18e siècle
KW  - Édition
KW  - Littérature écossaise (anglaise)
KW  - Éditeurs
KW  - Grande-Bretagne
KW  - Histoire
KW  - Irlande
KW  - États-Unis
KW  - Écrivains et éditeurs
KW  - Écosse
KW  - Appréciation
KW  - Écrivains écossais
KW  - Vie intellectuelle
KW  - Siècle des lumières
KW  - LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Schotse School
KW  - gtt
KW  - Uitgeverijen
KW  - Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland
KW  - Verenigde Staten
KW  - Ierland
KW  - ინგლისური ლიტერატურა
KW  - შოტლანდიელი ავტორები და მათი გამომცემლები
KW  - მე-18 საუკუნე
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. [709]-755) and index; Composing the Scottish Enlightenment -- Identity and diversity among Scottish authors -- The rewards of authorship -- Forging the London-Edinburgh publishing axis -- The heyday of Scottish Enlightenment publishing -- The achievement of William Creech -- The rise and fall of Irish reprinting -- Making Scottish books in America, 1770-1784 -- A more extensive diffusion of useful knowledge : Philadelphia, 1784-1800
N2  - The late eighteenth century witnessed an explosion of intellectual activity in Scotland by such luminaries as David Hume, Adam Smith, Hugh Blair, William Robertson, Adam Ferguson, James Boswell, and Robert Burns. And the books written by these seminal thinkers made a significant mark during their time in almost every field of polite literature and higher learning throughout Britain, Europe, and the Americas. In this magisterial history, Richard B. Sher breaks new ground for our understanding of the Enlightenment and the forgotten role of publishing during that period. The Enlightenment and the
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